Some of Monday’s top stories:
The Wall Street Journal
Big oil feels the need to get smaller, by Daniel Gilbert and Justin Scheck
Rocket Internet IPO proceeds less than expected, by Chase Gummer
Diageo to take full control of Don Julio, by Peter Evans
The New York Times
Dell’s life after Wall Street, by Quentin Hardy
Investigators focus on tail booms in crash of space plane, by Kenneth Chang
Bloomberg News
Banker Rurik Jutting charged with two Hong Kong murders, by Cathy Chan
Publicis buys Sapient for $3.7 billion in digital ad push, by Kristen Schweizer
Reuters
Unknown election outcome is stocks’ big fear, by Ryan Vlastelica
Alibaba’s first earnings to test mettle, investor enthusiasm, by Alexei Oreskovic and Paul Carsten
Fortune
Procter & Gamble’s Argentina ops suspended after tax fraud charge, by Reuters
Business Insider
Angela Merkel threw down a huge ultimatum to David Cameron, by Dina Spector
Today in business journalism
Tech news site CNET branching into print
Tennessee paper names executive biz editor
Forbes sells The Social Register
Louisville biz reporter Francis retires
Fusion hires Kashmir Hill from Forbes as it expands tech news operation
This date in business journalism history
2009: Bloomberg expects to name BusinessWeek editor before deal closes
2012: Wired editor in chief resigns to run robotics company
Business journalism birthdays
Nov. 2: Chaz Repak of Dow Jones
Nov. 2: Mike Santoli of Yahoo! Finance
Nov. 3: Diane Goldie of The Wall Street Journal
Nov. 3: Kathleen McLaughlin of The Indianapolis Business Journal
The Yale Program on Stakeholder Innovation and Management announced the appointment of Alan Murray, departing chief…
The Advocate is looking for a savvy reporter to cover the Baton Rouge business scene…
MLex, a LexisNexis company, is an independent news organization for breaking news and forward-looking analysis…
The Austin Business Journal seeks a staff writer to cover economic development in one of…
A Russian court on Saturday placed Sergei Mingazov, a journalist for the Russian edition of…
Justin Nielsen of Investor's Business Daily writes about the newspaper's 40th anniversary. Nielsen writes, "When the…